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Capital flows – in the form of equity and bond purchases, foreign direct investment, and lending – fell by over two thirds, from $11.9 trillion to $3.3 trillion, between 2007 and 2015.
A common energy policy must be based on the single market and collective planning of investment, while also accounting for the mix of sources and
purchases
from third parties.
At the very least, greater transparency in individual member states’ third-party
purchases
is needed.
Nonetheless, experimental monetary policies in advanced economies – such as the large-scale asset
purchases
initiated this month by the European Central Bank – have slowed the vicious circle of subpar economic performance and muddled politics.
Such speculative
purchases
may barely register in inventories, because the
purchases
are small compared to the overall market, and because of the global storage system’s many margins of accommodation.
A crucial part of this agenda is the removal of constraints on foreign direct investment and foreign investor
purchases
of equities and bonds, which are far more stable types of capital flows than bank lending.
Middle-class people are increasingly careful about their food purchases; the near-poor are losing headway and falling below, rather than staying above, the poverty line; and the poor and vulnerable, not surprisingly, are suffering even more.
As a result, they will limit or delay
purchases
and shift at least some of their consumption to foreign-made products that the tariffs have now made relatively cheaper.
Chinese investments increasingly took the form of official
purchases
of US Treasury bills.
Draghi’s statement reprised the rationale used by his predecessor, Jean-Claude Trichet, to justify ECB
purchases
of eurozone members’ sovereign debt.
While any central bank must be able to conduct open-market operations to manage liquidity in financial markets, selective
purchases
of individual country bonds that bear high interest rates because of current and past fiscal profligacy is both unnecessary and dangerous.
The ECB’s bond
purchases
would become as similar to the open-market operations of the United States Federal Reserve and the Bank of England as is possible in the absence of a single eurozone sovereign government.
By contrast, focusing potential ECB
purchases
on the sovereign debt of those countries with high interest rates would have serious adverse effects.
Finally, Germany might not continue to accept the default risks implied by large ECB
purchases
of high-risk sovereign bonds.
TOKYO – The US Federal Reserve’s gradual exit from so-called quantitative easing (QE) – open-ended
purchases
of long-term assets – has financial markets and policymakers worried, with warnings of capital flight from developing economies and collapsing asset prices dominating policy discussions worldwide.
The researchers Cynthia Wu and Fan Dora Xia estimate that the US Federal Reserve’s open-ended asset
purchases
(so-called quantitative easing, or QE) have led to an effective US policy rate of -1.6%.
Higher real interest rates discourage credit-financed
purchases
by households and businesses.
It can expand defense cooperation beyond
purchases
of American-made military equipment by deepening its diplomatic engagement with the US to help find solutions to the difficult problems stemming from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran.
With retail investors borrowing large amounts to finance share purchases, participation in the stock market surged, effectively turning a sound bull market into a “mad cow.”
What makes US strategy reckless is that the Bush administration is attacking China at the very moment that America's dependence on Chinese
purchases
of US government bonds is growing.
Without these purchases, the US might face a rise in domestic interest rates that could threaten both its economic recovery and the global economy.
The same charge has dogged China, which, with its spectacular export-led growth, record official
purchases
of US assets, and fixed (or semi-fixed) exchange rate, today continues to dominate discussion of global imbalances.
As the advent of cheap smartphones fuels a boom in Internet access, online
purchases
will eliminate a vast number of retail jobs.
There have been significant increases in defense budgets and weapons purchases, particularly in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and Venezuela.
Helping the ECB Cross the RubiconPARIS – Eurozone monetary officials are expected to make history when they gather for the European Central Bank’s next policy-setting meeting on January 22.Observers anticipate that ECB President Mario Draghi and his colleagues will finally cross the Rubicon and announce the launch of a large-scale program of quantitative easing (QE) – in other words, high-volume
purchases
of government bonds.
But German officials do not dispute the legitimacy of wholesale bond
purchases
for monetary-policy purposes, and that there can be circumstances that require QE.
But, by lowering long-term interest rates, central-bank
purchases
of government debt can help contain government debt service.
The Bank of Japan already holds government securities worth 40% of GDP, and it is committed to annual
purchases
worth 16% of GDP within the framework of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic revitalization agenda.
With annual
purchases
amounting to twice the deficit, it has become hard to speak of a “market” for government debt.
But continuing its
purchases
would tighten the government’s grip.
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